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rebeccmeisterDear COVID-19 teaching diary day 8,
What a day. First, I worked on my two-year tenure review packet, which at this stage is only slightly overdue. Cue lots of futzing with yet another online platform (Digication), running between two computers when the work computer refused to recognize the scanner, and preliminary feedback from my Chair that it might be a good idea to hunt down and add like 10 more documents to my Supplementary Materials. And I thought I was done. *dry laugh*. I am writing about this because I think it's important to remember that we still have our fair share of administrative tasks to tackle on top of all the teaching changes.
Up next, I decided it would probably be wise to hunt down the 50% of my students who didn't fill out a survey sent out by the School of Science about the technology they have access to. I didn't send them a separate survey because I had to figure they're currently getting inundated by surveys. Their responses support my hypothesis. Four hundred emails later, and I now know I have one student in a really tricky situation (nurse mom working with a floor of COVID-19 patients) and just one student I haven't made contact with, and the rest all sound like they will be able to manage just fine.
Easier for them than me, then. After that, I dove in to working on a replacement for our next lab. I've tweeted about my plan, here: https://twitter.com/TheAntlady/status/1242574479336902660
The replacement isn't finished yet, but Ithink hope it will be intellectually stimulating and rewarding for my students. I am sure they will let me know if they wind up feeling otherwise.
Still behind on grading.
What a day. First, I worked on my two-year tenure review packet, which at this stage is only slightly overdue. Cue lots of futzing with yet another online platform (Digication), running between two computers when the work computer refused to recognize the scanner, and preliminary feedback from my Chair that it might be a good idea to hunt down and add like 10 more documents to my Supplementary Materials. And I thought I was done. *dry laugh*. I am writing about this because I think it's important to remember that we still have our fair share of administrative tasks to tackle on top of all the teaching changes.
Up next, I decided it would probably be wise to hunt down the 50% of my students who didn't fill out a survey sent out by the School of Science about the technology they have access to. I didn't send them a separate survey because I had to figure they're currently getting inundated by surveys. Their responses support my hypothesis. Four hundred emails later, and I now know I have one student in a really tricky situation (nurse mom working with a floor of COVID-19 patients) and just one student I haven't made contact with, and the rest all sound like they will be able to manage just fine.
Easier for them than me, then. After that, I dove in to working on a replacement for our next lab. I've tweeted about my plan, here: https://twitter.com/TheAntlady/status/1242574479336902660
The replacement isn't finished yet, but I
Still behind on grading.
